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Do they not deliver long arguments to prove that Slavery is right, just, benign, civilizing, and necessary,--that it is the proper condition of the negro and the working-man?
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He critiques the arguments made by Southern politicians who justify slavery as beneficial and necessary.
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Nor should we be too impatient to witness the fulfilment of our aspirations.
It is a cause which, though long kept in check throughout our country, as also in Europe, now confronts the people and their rulers, demanding to be heard.
Again I repeat, so long as the War System prevails under the sanction of International Law, these painful incongruities will be apparent.
Their existence is a disgrace to civilization; for it implies the common consent of nations to the Arbitrament of War, as regulated by these laws.
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